Sebeea. | GENTIANE# (Hill and Prain), 1065 
gibbous keel-wing ; corolla-tube 1 lin. long; lobes 1-1} lin. long, 
about ? lin. broad, ovate-oblong, obtuse ; filaments ? lin. long ; 
anthers $—} lin. long, with an apical gland; style about 2 lin. long, 
with inconspicuous glandular swelling; stigma subclavate, entire. 
A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 321. 8. ambigua, var. gracilis, 
Cham. in Linnea, vi. 346; Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, 
xvii. (1903) 18 partly. 
Coast Reaion : Cape Div. ; Muizenberg Vley, by the railway, Wolley Dod, 2382 ! 
This species resembles S$. ambigua, Cham., in the character of its leaves and 
calyx-segments, but differs markedly in its inflorescences and bracts, in which it 
approaches more nearly to S, aurea, R. Br. 
8. 8. glauca (A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 321); annual, 
4-5 in. high, simple or branching from base ; leaves in 4 pairs, 
fleshy, broadly ovate, obtuse, 4—5 lin. long, 3-34 lin. broad ; cymes 
densely branched forming a corymb; ultimate cymes crowded ; 
branches }-1} in. long; flowers almost sessile ; bracts rhomboid- 
ovate or narrowly ovate ; calyx-segments obovate, concave, truncate, 
erose, apiculate, 2-24 lin. long, with a keel-wing broadest at the 
middle, }—} lin. wide ; corolla-tube 21 lin, long; lobes 21 lin. long, 
1} lin. broad, ovate, subapiculate ; filaments } lin. long; anthers 
about } lin. long, with a large apical gland ; style about 2 lin. long, 
with a median swelling ; stigma bilabiate. 
eee Recion: Cape Div. ; roadside near Little Lions head, Wolley Dod, 
3273a ! 
Similar to 8. ambigua, Cham., in vegetative habit, but differs in the cymes not 
being collected into dense heads, in the bracts and especially in the calyx-lobes 
with their wings broadest at the middle, in which respect it approaches S. pallida, 
KE. Meyer. It is not improbable that this plant may be a hybrid between 
S. ambigua and S, pallida, 
9. 8. aurea (R. Br. Prodr. 452) ; annual, 2-9 in. high, simple, 
but sometimes branching from the base; leaves in 3-5 pairs, 
herbaceous, broadly ovate or cordate, acute or subacute, basal pair 
smallest, 14-8 lin. long, 1-6 lin. broad ; cymes very variable, but of 
« densely branched corymbose type; branches very variable ; 
pedicels 2-3 lin. long; calyx-segments lanceolate or oblong- 
lanceolate, concave, mucronate, 1-14 lin, long, with a keel or very 
slight keel-wing, broadest at the middle; corolla yellow to white ; 
tube 1-2 lin. long ; lobes 1-24 lin. long, 3-1} lin. wide, ovate-oblong, 
subacute ; filaments lin. long; anthers 3-1 lin. long, with 
a large apical gland; style 1-24 lin. long, with a median 
swelling ; stigma entire and clavate or subcapitate or bifid with 
broad lobes. Griseb. Gen. et Spec. Gent. 167 and in DC. Prodr. 
ix. 52 ; Cham. in Linnea, vi. 346 ; E. Meyer, Comm. 185; Schinz in 
Vierteljahreschr. Naturf. Ges. Ziirich, xxxvii. 315 ; Knoblauch in Bot. — 
Centralbl. Ix. 324 ; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 88 ; Schinz in Mitteil. 
Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, xvii. (1903) 18; A. W. Hill in Kew Bulletin, 
= : 1908, 321. 8. aurea, var. genuina, Schinz in Mitteil. Geogr, Ges. — ; : 
